Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
If I saved $200 on a watch or $150 on a chair, that's reasonable in my mind.
Also, when will people figure out how group buys work? Every single comment thread has to have someone complaining about shipping... dude this is just how it works.
But, you are right. Most places (Amazon, mechanicalkeyboards.com, the Vortex store) don't seem to hold stock for very long. I'm not very good with delayed gratification, but the more I think about it... I'd rather save the $15 bucks. It's not like I'm typing on capless key switch nubs.